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HAIR PIN.

(Application filed Oct. 17, i895.

(No Model.)

WITNESSES: INVENTOR BY 5 v Q/%M/7 ATTORNEY Nrrnn STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

CROWELL M. DISSOSWAY, OF NEW YORK, Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHNGOODCIIILD, GUARDIAN, OF SAME PLACE.

HAIR-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,039, dated March28, 1899.

Application filed October 17,1898. Serial No. 693,700. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CROWELL M. DIssos- WAY, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residin gin the borough of Manhattan and city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHair-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of hairpins which have devices ofsome kind to prevent them from slipping too readily out of the hairafter insertion therein. Many forms of pins have been proposed for thispurpose, some ofwhich are ineffective and others, while reasonablyeffective in holding the pin in place, are too difficult to extricatefrom the hair, an operation which it is desirable to effect with onehand and which must not injure the hair.

The present invention, which has for its obj ect to provide aninexpensive pin which will not injure the hair, which will retain itsplace when inserted, and which can be readily disengaged from the hairand withdrawn with one hand, consists, broadly, in a pin having twoprongs and a connecting-head, as usual, and having formed in one only ofits prongs near the head, but not at the head, a smooth concave pocket,which is eXteriorly situated relatively to the space between the prongsof the pin, so as not to contract the space between the prongs at thepoint where it is situated, and which opens toward the head of the pin.When the head of the pin is grasped between the thumb and finger andpushed into the mass of hair up to the head, as usual, there is no unduecompression of the hair in passing a contracted part of the spacebetween the prongs; but the retention of the pin is effected by theengagement in said pocket of the hair exterior to the pin and whichcrosses the pin near the head thereof and above or beyond said pocket.In removing the pin this engaged lock of hair may be simply disengagedby pushing it aside with the finger when the head of the pin is graspedfor withdrawing the latter. The lock of hair not being confined betweenthe prongs of the pin at its head, as in some forms of pins, it offersno obstacle to the ready extrication of the pin.

In the accompanying drawings several em"- bodiments of the invention areillustrated.

commoner forms of these pins are made by.

bending a piece of wire at its middle. In carrying out this invention ina wire hair-pin the wire of one only of the prongs is bent at or nearthe head end of the pin, so as to form a concave retaining-pocket c, themouth of which opens or is directed toward the head.

end of the pin. When such a pin is pushed into the mass of hair, someportion of the latter will, as stated, fall into the pocket 0 and ofiersuch resistance to the accidental working out of the pin that the-latterwill retain its place until Withdrawn by the hand. The withdrawal of thepin may be effected without difficulty, as the finger used in graspingthe head of the pin can be used for pushing back or to one side the haircrossing the pin in the pocket 0, the latter being made smooth androunded, so as to prevent the hair from getting wedged or fast in it.

The pocket 0 may be formed in the same plane as the face of the pin, or,in other words, the pin will be fiat, as seen in the end view below inFig. 1; but the bracket 0, forming the pocket, may be turned at an angleto the face of the pin, as indicated in the embodiment illustrated inFigs. 2 and 3.

Fig. 4 shows the invention applied to a pin formed from other materialthan wire, as celluloid, tortoise-shell, aluminium, or the like.

It will be noted that the displacement of the hair to permit the bracketin which the pocket is formed to pass is effected in the loose exteriorhair and not by compression, as in the case of pins havinginteriorly-situated shoulders, which contract the space between theprongs at the point Where they are situated.

In the simpler form of the pin, Figs. 1 and 4, the prongs are separatedfarther between the pocket and their tips than between the pocket andthe head. This allows the pin to be more easily inserted and withdrawn.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. As an improved articleof manufacture, a hair-pin having prongs and a head, and having formedin one of its prongs near, but not at the head end of the pin, an open,concave retaining-pocket, the said pocket being externally situated withrespect to the space between the prongs, and having its opening or mouthdirected toward the head end of the pin.

As an improved article of manufacture,

a hair-pin having prongs and a head, and having formed exteriorly in oneof its prongs an open, concave pocket 0, the space between the prongsbeing narrower between the pocket and the head of the pin than betweenthe pocket and the ends of the prongs, whereby the pin is adapted to beeasily withdrawn when the hair is disengaged from said pocket,substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 13th day ofOctober, 1898, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OROWVELL M. DISSOSWVAY.

\Vitnesses:

PETER A. Ross, HENRY CONNETT.

